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• BrandPost: Everybody Wins with Technology Business Management

  17-04-2018 21:41
  Transforming through Technology Business Management (TBM) can be a tough challenge. TBM can improve the visibility of IT at the levels of cost and performance, allowing the organization to make better technology decisions. And yet, many organizations struggle on their TBM journey with issues such as trusting company data, general skepticism, and the fact that change, of any kind, is hard.But the truth is that there are no winners and losers when it comes to TBM, says Kimberly Sorensen, Director
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Improve end user device security and embrace the future via the cloud

  17-04-2018 21:09
  Does April 8, 2014 ring a bell? That was the day that Windows XP officially went end of life. Yet, somehow, I still see Windows XP systems out in the wild. Not just at your grandmother’s house -- I’m talking about at large, multinational corporations. XP’s sticking power has been both baffling and impressive, still boasting an 8% market share on PCs despite being 16 years old and 3 revisions behind Microsoft’s current OS.How did XP become so ubiquitous? Why has XP stuck
  
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• The secrets to beating an applicant tracking system (ATS)

  17-04-2018 20:14
  Job hunters should know that nearly 40 percent of employers use an applicant tracking system (ATS) to screen candidates for their job openings. Don’t let the name fool you. Applicant tracking systems don’t “track” where you are in the recruitment process. They’re aimed at saving employers time by dividing strong candidates from the weak. But the way in which your resume is written — not the information it conveys — is what the technology actually uses t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT effectiveness – Everyone’s desire, yet no one’s mandate

  17-04-2018 19:22
  In "IT effectiveness – the engine of digital transformation – is ailing. Why?" I discussed why the enterprise IT effectiveness is ailing now as manifested by missed digital opportunities, increasing costs, lagging innovation, growing technical debt, demoralized workforce, rising shadow IT and diluted technology know-how, among others. We uncovered that IT organizations spend a significant effort on outputs that are never utilized (i.e., dormant output) or delivered too late with a l
  
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• BrandPost: Why HPC Matters: Understanding Our Universe

  17-04-2018 19:12
  Searching for gravitational waves and exploring the physics of black holes and warped space-time is all in a day’s work for teams of researchers in Australia. This is the type of work conducted by the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). And it’s the type of work that couldn’t be carried out without the extreme computational power of a supercomputer.In OzGrav’s case, the computational power is delivered via a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Vision, alignment and the development of consensus

  17-04-2018 19:00
  "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." – Jonathan Swift
  Given the rapid and accelerating rate of business change and competition, it is not unusual for businesses to want to deploy a major new product or upgrade rapidly. Sometimes business survival might hang in the balance and depend on such a product deployment. This is one of many reasons agile and scrum are so popular – they drive speed to market.Consider as an example a business with multiple business lines i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Navigating artificial intelligence strategy in your industry

  17-04-2018 18:00
  While AI’s impact on the workforce is clearly top-of-mind for most organizations, executives have many additional questions which need to be addressed to clarify the impact of the technology on their business models, processes, products and services – and their market and competitive position under different AI adoption scenarios.The exact question set varies by executive role. While the CEO is mostly interested in implications on corporate growth, competitive position and different
  
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• BrandPost: How to Staff a Data Factory

  17-04-2018 15:53
  The most in‑demand IT roles today are full‑stack developer, DevOps engineer, and data scientist. The first two jobs didn’t exist a decade ago. The third was only beginning to gain mainstream recognition. That finding, from a recent study by Indeed.com, suggests a broad shift in how IT departments operate—one with big implications for workers, CIOs and CISOs alike.For years, the core purpose of IT was managing a company’s tech infrastructure and systems of record. T
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Successful retailers make customers ‘fall in love’ with stores

  17-04-2018 14:58
  If you think online shopping is killing the entire brick-and-mortar retail category, think again.Companies willing to bet big on providing unique experiences to potential or actual customers will do just fine, says Howard Saunders.  Of course, Saunders, a self-proclaimed retail futurist and CEO of retail consultancy 22nd&5th, has a dog in this fight -- who needs a retail futurist if there is no future in retail? But he can point to many examples of physical stores that are not just sur
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Shed light on your dark data before GDPR comes into force

  17-04-2018 14:47
  Also referred to as unstructured data, dark data is growing at a rate of 62% per year, according to IDG. By 2022, they say, 93% of all data will be unstructured.  Gartner defines dark data as, “the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes”. Consisting of data from a huge variety of sources - emails, documents, instant messages, digital media posts, partly developed applications &
  
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• Future-proof your IT career with these critical skills

  17-04-2018 12:00
  With technology proliferating throughout the enterprise, it’s not surprising that the number of IT jobs in the United States is projected to grow significantly in the coming decade. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts employment in computer and information technology occupations to grow 13 percent by 2026, well above the overall job growth rate of 7.4 percent.IT leaders, recruiters and industry researchers say most of the skills that IT workers have today will still be needed
  
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• Customize your benefits to improve IT talent retention

  17-04-2018 12:00
  When it comes to benefits, the standard fare is no longer cutting it. Vacation, basic healthcare, a traditional 401(k) plan — if you want to hire and retain valuable IT talent, you have to push beyond those basic perks, expand the definition of benefits, and customize your offerings to compete.“I was giving a talk at an association of Volvo dealerships in Sweden, and one of their leaders said, ‘Maybe we should think about getting a beer tap and kegs like the Silicon Valley com
  
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